Rat Academy
December 5 @ 8:00 pm - December 7 @ 8:00 pm
$25
Pi Theatre launches this year’s Pi Provocateurs Performance Series with Rat Academy by Edmonton, Alberta’s Batrabbit Collective, from Thursday, December 5 to Saturday, December 7, 2024.
Do you like rats? Good. Come along with the two last Albertan rats as they teach you the ways of the rodent. Fingers, a curmudgeonly street rat with a heart of gold is completely alone. Or so he thinks until he discovers Shrimp, an escaped happy-go-lucky lab rat. Eager to preserve his legacy, Fingers creates the Rat Academy to train Shrimp in the ways of the cold, hard street rat.
On the syllabus: Cheese-ology, the Art of Scaring Magpies; Stealing 101; and Advanced Tails. But their dark alleys are far from predictable, and as the unlikely duo tries to exist in a world that hates them, they learn that survival is nothing without love.
Inspired by Alberta’s famous 1950s anti-rat propaganda and mentored by Mump and Smoot, this physical comedy duo will have you clutching your tail.
Thursday, December 5 at 8:00pm (Opening Night)
Friday, December 6 at 8:00pm
Saturday, December 7 at 4:00pm
Saturday, December 7 at 8:00pm
Ticket Prices: $25 at www.pitheatre.com
Venue: A secret site-responsive venue in East Vancouver (exact address will be given to ticket-holders 3 days before the event)